I missed Los Angeles Times’ media colunist Tim Rutten’s latest howler from Saturday as I was in Chicago watching Ohio State tune-up for Saturday’s romp over the Wolverines. But an e-mail alerted me that Tim had delivered an opus on the worst major paper’s future that I had to read. I did, and you should. Here is a bit of old media arrogance with few rivals. Key graphs:

But whether the Los Angeles Times returns to local ownership or is operated as part of one of these arrangements